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cross purposes

Translation

to talk at cross purposes
hablar de cosas distintas
I think we are talking at cross purposes
Creo que hablamos de cosas distintas
(Definition of cross purposes from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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